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370 [Doc. 245.
TRIAL AT GOTTENBURG.
themselves handsomely at the Diet upon the doctrines, dis
cussed there.
"Nothing of what the Consistories submitted against my
writings has been communicated to me, so that I am totally
ignorant of what passed in the Privy Council.*
"Next June I will travel to Amsterdam, where I intend
to publish the ’Universal Theology of the New Church.’ The
worship of the Lord is the foundation therein, and if upon
that foundation the true house or temple be not built, others
will erect upon it lupanaria or brothels.
"With respect to the dragonist spirits, they are all removed
far away to the south, where certain places are assigned to
the learned, to each his own cell, where they may confirm
themselves in justification by faith alone, and those who con
firm themselves therein by the Word of God, depart thence
into a desert, and so on farther ; and the rest, after making
their escape, receive no homes ; whither they direct their way
I do not yet know in heaven there is no place for them.
Their fate will be, as described in the ’Apocalypse Revealed,’
no. 421. But the abyss which is described there is now re
moved farther towards the south, as has been observed.
"I remain with all friendship and trust,
"Your most obedient servant,
"EM. SWEDENBORG
"Stockholm, April 30, 1770."
General Tuxen201 was the first who called Swedenborg’s
attention to the printed Minutes of the Consistory of Gotten
burg (see Document 245, X, p. 373), and Swedenborg ac
knowledged his kind offices by giving him in the following
letter a general account of his difficulties with the Consistory.
Swedenborg’s letter to General Tuxen serves, therefore, in the
place of a general résumé of these difficulties up to May 1,
1770.
* From this passage it appears, as if not only the Consistory of Gotten
burg, but also the other Consistories of Sweden had been ordered to sub
mit their opinions of Swedenborg’s theological writings. Cfr. on this sub
ject Document 6, no. 37.
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